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From: dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: mkdir has stopped working - SCO Xen
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.215548.20938@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 25 Apr 91 21:55:48 GMT
References: <4967@nodecg.ncc.telecomwa.oz.au> <285400001@adaptx1> <1991Apr24.045214.17664@bilver.uucp>
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In article <1991Apr24.045214.17664@bilver.uucp> bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
>>Check the amount of files/directories in the directory you are trying to
>>create one in.  If the total is more than 999, the mkdir command will fail.
>>You can only have up to 1000 entries in each subdirectory.  I don't know
>>whether this is a file system limit or a limit imposed by mkdir.
>
>Is this a problem only under Xenix.
>I don't see this limit in the manual . 
>

I suspect this is a Xenixism. From the manual for mknod (S):


mknod will fail and the file will not be created if one or more of the 
following are true:

......

  The directory to contain the new file cannot be extended. [ENOSPC].


There is a similar entry for all of the rest of the system calls that
create links (open, creat, link, ...).



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